#sculpture

Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures. ↗

— George Segal

#around #could #even #everything #fence

They stared at her together for a moment. Sun beams played over marble, making the pink alabaster glow as if rosy blood danced just under the surface of Aphrodite's skin. ↗

— Eloisa James

#love

I am not a performer but occasionally I deliberately work in a public context. Some sculptures need the movement of people around them to work. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

#around #context #deliberately #i #i am

Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe. ↗

— Philip Guston

#archaic #brains #forms #hands #heart

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#gravity #logical #makes #more #painting

People always say that my work is sensational or shocking but there are truly shocking things you could do, and my sculptures don't go anywhere near that. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#anywhere #could #go #near #people

Firstly I did it in this huge theatre in Avignon, then to smaller places, then bigger places. You have to change the volume of the voice, give more or less. The way you have to relate to space makes it like sculpture. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#change #did #firstly #give #huge

I express myself in sculpture since I am not a poet. ↗

— Aristide Maillol

#express #i #i am #myself #poet

They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion. ↗

— Kate Millett

#beautiful #form #kinetic #more #motion

Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#arts #been #birth #dance #decline